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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. LANCE, OF NEW JERUSALEM, OHIO.

SAP-BUCKET HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,662, dated December4., 1883.

Application filed June 14, 1883. (No model.)

1'0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. LANCE, a citizen of the United States, andaresident of New Jerusalem, in the county of Logan and State of Ohio,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Sugar-Water orSap Bucket Holders and Stools, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists in an improved mode of hanging buckets, crooks,&c., onto the maple-tree to catch the sugar-water, and in hanging acover to keep rain-Water and dirt from falling into the bucket or crock.

Figure 1 isa view of my device for hanging the bucket; Fig. 2, a view ofmy crock support or stool; Fig. 3, a view of my cover; Fig. 4, a view ofmy invention applied to a tree.

A is a curved or bent wire; B, the backwardinturned sharpened ends tocatch in the bark of the tree; 0, the loop or hook on which the buckethangs; D, the stool or board on which the crock sits, made with the partnext the tree rounded out the shape of the tree E, sharpened wire pointsto .engage in the bark of the tree and keep the board from tilting; F,staples fastening the wire A to the board; G, the cover, hung on wire A,and intended to protect the sap from the falling rain or the dirt thatsplashes from the tree.

My device for hanging the bucket consists, simply, of a curvedbail-shaped wire having its ends turned inward and backward to engagethe bark of the tree, and having a hook dangling from the center tosustain the bucket.

The tendency of the bail is to collapse or straighten out in the shapeof two parallel arms whenpulled from the center. When the bucket issuspended from the hook in the center, the weight of the bucket pulls onthe center and causes the two inclined ends to clinch the tree tightly,forming a perfect support.

In the stool or crock-support the tendency of the board is to tilt. ThisI overcome by placing the wire a little to one side of the center, andinserting sharp pins in the curved edge of the board next the tree,which are pressed into the bark and keep the board from turning. Insetting the support I inclinethe board up a little from the treeoutward,when the pressure of the crock, as it fills, presses the pinsinto the bark farther and tends to" bring the board down level. Thebail-cover I attach the same as the wire that holds the bucket, lettingthe board slant to run off the rain.

What I claim as new is The combination, with the curved wire A, havingthe backward-inturned sharpened ends B, of the board D, provided withpoints E, as and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES M. LANCE.

Attest:

O. D. CAMPBELL, E. M. CAMPBELL.

